Barnes Takeout: Art Talk on Henri Matisse's Red Madras Headdress
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มี.ค. 2020
- Cindy Kang, associate curator, looks at Matisse’s Red Madras Headdress in a new light.
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This is wonderful. Please continue this post-virus! Thank you.
This is also one of my favorite paintings at the Barnes. What a burst of color and attitude! Thanks so much to the Barnes staff for these takeout sessions. You're making a difficult time much easier to get through!
I love these videos. Thank you Barnes Foundation!
Thank you, Cindy Kang. Enjoyed your talk immensely
I've seen this painting, too. Last year on my birthday with my wife and daughter, we drove down to the Barnes Foundation from upstate NY. The collection is wonderful. Renoir and Matisse are my two most favorite painters. I love Impressionism. The Cleveland Art Museum also has a great collection as well. Thank you for your interpretation of this Matisse's painting.
I bought a print of this painting years ago while I was a student in Merion. (It is my wife's favorite too) I appreciate it from his composition and the balance he creates by tilting her head and the 3/4 turn. I love how using diapering he flattens the plane, but by using the varying volumes he creates a sense of weightiness.... Lastly as a colorist... his use of green in the shadows... to heighten the key of the reds in her madras hat... Also the variation in the cool blues helps make the flesh in her arms glow... It is clear why Barnes felt he was one of the greatest... and why his teacher Moureau said he would revolutionize painting! I believe there are quite a few of these madras hat paintings... (Including the ones in the Barnes)
Thanks so much for this series. My friend Tom and I watched it "together" then discussed it afterwards (by phone).
Cool. Like I love Mona Lisa. I love the colors.
Love the interpretation - red and blue my favorite colors
I think Cindy did a phenomenal job describing this painting.. I’ve seen it, studied it, and I found her interpretation and insight into the painting very interesting. I know what I like and I certainly have my favorites... I’m just not sure what it is that I like about a specific painting. She helped me to understand some of the reasons why I am drawn to certain paintings.
Thank You, for this, I was admiring the painting today. It’s on the cover of an art book on my desk, Great French Paintings from the Barnes Foundation. I love your take and feeling of the painting. Wonderful insight.
I was at the Barnes three years ago for my Birthday, what a special place. I enjoyed every minute.
Best Wishes, Merci
Carl Routh
Houston Texas
Matisse painted this in 1907 ,during his Fauvist period, so there is lots of color. The eye immediately goes to the headdress.I really like the use of green. The bold green line on the forehead and the shadowing on the left side of the neck complement the bold red of the headscarf. The energy of the painting seems to go from right to left.As the analyst said, the figure seems to outgrow the canvas on the left. Nice!
Thank you for doing this.
This was great. Love matisse and this one is stunning. Thanks for taking us on a tour and doing little zooms around the painting. Do you think Barnes wanted to highlight the exotic ambiguity of this painting with all the stuff he wanted around it? Also 5 mins. is a nice little art break in my day. Thank you!
I want to draw her❤️😉
I subscribed but have not received an email with each day's Takeout. Please advise. These are so good, I want to see them all! I've also sent info to friends who will subscribe, if possible.
Does it matter at all who the woman is?
I'm more interested in the esthetics than the subject.
I ask, " does it work as a painting?" and, if so...why?
Matisse was a master colorist.
Can anything be said about his color choices in this picture?
Has anyone ever analyzed them?
Is there something to be said about his use here of the complementary colors orange and blue?
In this image, at least, the color looks more orange than red.
Is it a warm red bordering on orange?
What about color saturation?
Both colors of her dress are unsaturated while those same two colors appear more saturated in the background and the material of the head cloth.
What is the role of temperature contrast?
Was the background originally green?
Or did Matisse add green and other hints of color to the background to avoid monochrome?
The figure sits in the center of the canvas.
Artists are generally cautioned against such symmetrical composition.
Does it succeed here? If so, why?
This is the sort of analysis I was looking for in a discussion of the painting.
I was quite disappointed in the review since the curator did not even mention the head dress that was in the title i.e. the" Red Madras Headdress" ......Madras is the old Spanish / Portuguese name ( Madre de Dios") for the largest city in South India such that.one would have expected that there would be some discussion of the beautiful textile in the title , its origin etc etc etc ..
A most un-Barnesian analysis.